1988 Iranian legislative election

1988 Iranian legislative election

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All 270 seats of Islamic Consultative Assembly
136 seats needed for a majority
Registered27,986,736[1]
Turnout59.72%[1]
  Majority party Minority party
 
Leader Mehdi Karoubi Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani
Party Association of Combatant Clerics
Combatant Clergy Association
Alliance Left Right
Leader's seat Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat Tehran, Rey and Shemiranat (defeated)
Seats won ≈160[2] ≈90[2]

National Consultative Assembly of Iran following the 1988 election
Composition of the Assembly following the election

Prime Minister before election

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent

Elected Prime Minister

Mir-Hossein Mousavi
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Iran on 8 April 1988, with a second round on 13 May.[3] The result was a victory for leftist politicians who later emerged as reformists.[4] The number of clerics elected to the Majlis was reduced by over a third.[5]

  1. ^ a b "1988 Parliamentary Election", The Iran Social Science Data Portal, Princeton University, archived from the original on 30 May 2012, retrieved 10 August 2015
  2. ^ a b Bahman Bakhtiari (1993), "Parliamentary elections in Iran", Iranian Studies, 24 (3–4), Routledge: 375–388, doi:10.1080/00210869308701808 – via Tandfonline (subscription required), By the end of September 1989, the radicals had close to 160 supporters, around 90 deputies belonged to the pragmatists' camp, the rest were "fence-sitters."
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I, p. 68 ISBN 0-19-924958-X
  4. ^ Zandi, Mohammad Ali. "3rd Islamic Consultative Assembly elections" (in Persian). Baqir al-Ulum Research Institute. Archived from the original on 13 April 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ James W. Heslep The Decline of Clerics in the Iranian Majles Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine